A progressive education? : how childhood changed in mid-twentieth-century English and Welsh schools / Laura Tisdall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tisdall, Laura, author.

Series:

Manchester scholarship online.

Manchester scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Progressive education--Great Britain.

Progressive education.

Early childhood education--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Early childhood education.

Education--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages) : digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2020.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

It has been suggested that the dominance of 'progressive' education after 1945 led to a backlash against permissive attitudes to pupils in both Western Europe and the United States. But British child-centred education, in alliance with developmental psychology, actually shaped a more restrictive and pessimistic image of childhood. Drawing on an extensive range of sources that illuminate teaching practice, from school logbooks to oral histories, this book will be crucial not only for historians and sociologists of modern Britain, but for education professionals and policy-makers.

Contents:

Introduction: The rise and fall of progressive education?

1. What is a progressive education?

2. Stages of development, educational psychology and child-centred education

3. 'Trendy, airy-fairy methods': teachers' resistance to progressive education

4. A half-reformed education?: teaching practice and local change

5. Primary school teachers, gender and concepts of childhood

6. Secondary school teachers, class and status

7. The 'backlash' against progressivism

Conclusion: the reinvention of childhood?

Bibliography

Notes.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5261-5041-7

1-5261-3290-7

OCLC:

1125947921